They can provide service like a large company, but personal-touch service like a small company—with a born and bred local at the helm. They work to ease family minds with frequent updates about everything from project progress to location tracking, so families know right when to anticipate a service team’s arrival at their home.
6 Tasks Homeowners Can Do Between Yearly HVAC Inspections
How to Prevent, Test, and Treat Mold in Your Home
Some families may feel that mold testing is the best first step for them. If you feel unsure about whether your home has been infected with mold, it is appropriate for home ownership hygiene to periodically call for a home mold test. You may be lucky enough to catch a small issue before it becomes a full-blown mold epidemic.
If you fall under the category of a family who just wants to ensure air quality is in tip-top shape in the home as a preventative measure or who is not certain if any mold outbreak is quietly happening under your noses, a home mold test is an excellent step to take.
Other families may recognize that mold mitigation is the appropriate measure to protect their family’s health and prevent mold. For still others, there may be conditions within the home that are ripe for breeding mold spores in the future, or mold spread may have already occurred, and finding a specialist in mold remediation is of paramount importance.
10 Reasons Why Every Homebuyer Should Order a Lateral Sewer Line Inspection (Sewer Scope)
Homebuyers often neglect to have the lateral sewer line inspected during the home inspection process. A general home inspection doesn’t go below the surface, so adding a sewer line inspection can reveal quite a lot more about the property. Here are 10 reasons why every home buyer should order a lateral line sewer inspection on inspection day.
Properly Maintain your Fireplace and Chimney - 3 Reasons Why
Whether or not your chimney is in need of a fix, there are things you should be doing to make sure your chimney and fireplace are in excellent shape all year-round, so when the season turns colder you’re always ready for a hearty fire! The most important maintenance step you can take is to have your chimney swept professionally once a year.
Why You Should Always Turn on Bathroom and Kitchen Vents
The bathroom and the kitchen. Maybe the two most used rooms in a house, the two rooms with some of the most complex equipment, and the two rooms that can often cause the most trouble. As home inspectors, we often see the kitchen and bathroom as the places where plumbing issues, electrical problems, and DIY-gone-wrong installments are. But there are many common-sense ways you can take care of your kitchen and bathroom so they continue to function properly and be safe places. Today, we’re going to look at just one simple but very important thing you can do: use your exhaust vents!
4 Most Common Issues Found in Home Inspections
When you are preparing to have a home inspection done, it’s a good idea to think ahead about what the inspector will be looking at, and what problems they are most likely to find. This will help reduce the shock of seeing your home inspection report and prepare you to talk to the home inspector about concerns you have. It’s also helpful to think about the most common issues found in home inspections, so you know what you may be dealing with for your own home.
Home Inspection Tips for Sellers
A home inspection is typically thought of as being for buyers. A buyer will get a home inspection done of the house they want to buy in order to get a better understanding of the property and to negotiate with the seller any repairs that need to be done. However, a home inspection can be just as valuable to sellers. How? For all the same reasons as a buyer! The purpose of a home inspection is to determine the condition of the house by identifying deficiencies and future hazards. Knowing this before putting a house on the market can help a seller make necessary fixes, which makes the house more lucrative to begin with, and put the buyer more at ease. A seller’s home inspection may increase the likelihood of showings, and reduce time on the market. A seller’s home inspection can keep everyone from being caught off guard, so here are four home inspection tips for sellers.
How To Take Care Of A Fence
Fences are a critical part of your home. They provide security and safety and add to your yard’s beauty, but they’re easy to overlook. Keeping your fence well-maintained isn’t just a smart idea to make your home look nicer though- it can save you money further down the line, and make your home more valuable. Whether you’re staging your house to sell, or just want to improve your property, here are some key maintenance tips for both wood and vinyl to help you take care of your fence.
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5 Ways For Sellers to Prepare For Home Inspections
In order to best facilitate a successful contract, the timely inspection process, and quick closing it’s vital for a seller to do the due diligence of preparing for the inspection. Now that we’ve clarified what a home inspection is, and what it is not, let’s get on with the 5 ways to prepare for the home inspection.
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3 Reasons Your Deck is Decaying
Internachi reports that only 40% of all decks built in the US are safe!
First, we know there are a lot of DIY decks out there. So we’d just like to point out, “there is no correlation between deck failure and whether the deck was built by a homeowner or a professional contractor.” (Internachi) The failure occurs when the deck is built improperly and is not properly maintained throughout its lifespan.
